Motivational quotes of Abraham Lincoln

1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
2. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
3. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
4. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
5. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
6. “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.”
7. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
8. “That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
9. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
10. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
11. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
12. “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
13. “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
14. “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
15. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
16. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.”
17. “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
18. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
19. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
20. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”